Vengeance Quotes
295 Vengeance quotes by 229 unique authors
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I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare…
— Unknown Author
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If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
— Daniel Guerin
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I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
— Neil Young
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Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.
— Max Lucado
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If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be…
— Charles Spurgeon
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What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?
— William Shakespeare
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Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing…
— Barbara Deming
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
— Victor Hugo
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Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and…
— Hillel the Elder
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What are you doing for others?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
— Coretta Scott King
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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
— Janet Morris
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or…
— Aristotle
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The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens…
— Larry Flynt
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
— Olympia Dukakis
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The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
— Joan Jett
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I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance,…
— Umair Haque
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"You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in a room affect…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks,…
— Bill O'Reilly
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All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins,…
— Clara Barton
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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
— Terry Goodkind
Who Wrote These Vengeance Quotes
229 authors contributed a total of 295 Vengeance Quotes, led by these top contributors: